Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo after using just a wordmark for the past decade. The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage “GFiber.”
Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo after using just a wordmark for the past decade. The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage “GFiber.”
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And the best deal available to me, in a major US metropolitan area, within 2-5km of the highway, is 100Mb/s down, 5Mb/s up, for $60/mo. On copper, with no fiber options available.
We just don’t get those kinds of prices here for a couple reasons. America is just so big, we largely live in single family homes, finally every company has to build its own infrastructure. Connecting all those individual houses is expensive. So either companies won’t or if they do the cost of the Internet access is expensive too.
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The last mile is a really expensive. Even a well intentioned company that wants to keep it’s prices low has difficulty building that last mile out. There just aren’t enough Americans who actually want government infrastructure like that. If enough people wanted them I firmly believe it would happen.
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Monopolies don’t exist every place. There are several companies in my area offering high speed Internet. One is in suburbs all around me but not in mine. They also have the cheapest costs. I called them asking when they might be expecting to my suburb and they said that my town (pop 60,000) will be one of the last because of how difficult it’ll be to get to every house. A different company moved in pay year and they cost more than the first one. State governments shouldn’t be allowed to block municipal Internet.
I think I read somewhere that the US government gave some grants/subsidies to ISPs to build their fiber network? Surely this should translate to cheaper price?
Unfortunately that’s not how it works. That works as an incentive to build not as a mechanism to bring down prices. For gigabit access in most markets that’ll cost at least $50 more likely closer to $100 a month. I pay $60
It should work to bring down prices because the network would be paid for and so there’s less of a need to make up for costs. Doesn’t matter anyway, since the ISPs just pocketed the money and paid it out in bonuses rather than build what was promised.
Should yes but the federal government doesn’t make conditions for the funds and if they do it’s just ignore without consequences.
gigabit fiber connection is just 6$/month in ukraine